Nate Wittnam thinks this is interesting:

The topic of this can be
confusing, but it does not have to be. Just remember that, in general,
this is used inside of functions to
refer to the object the function is contained within, as opposed to the
function itself [exceptions include using the new keyword or call() and apply()].

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